[Fedora-i18n-bugs] [Bug 606217] Eccentric glyph for the lowercase Greek gamma letter ( γ )

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James Cloos <cloos at jhcloos.com> changed:

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--- Comment #1 from James Cloos <cloos at jhcloos.com> 2010-06-27 14:04:35 EDT ---
This one got me curious.

It looks like only the sans and mono faces have that lean; the descender
remains vertical in Serif-Regular and Serif-Bold and has the same slope in
Italic and BoldItalic as those fonts’ italic angle, AFAICT at screen
resolution.

Looking at the »γ« glyph in the Regular faces in fontforge shows that the slant
is intentional to the design; the descender is an extension on the right
stroke.

I took a look at several fonts and that does seem to be an unique design
decision.  Most other fonts tend to either extend to left stroke or make the
descender an overlapping extension of both strokes.

An interesting issue, indeed!

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